El Father Plays Himself
A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Rake Films, Ardimages, La Faena
- Keyword: venezuela, filmmaking, making of, latin america
- Cast: Jorge Thielen Armand, Jorge Thielen Hedderich
